We employed a novel technique to explore how the body’s motion and morphology affect judgments of sex and gender. Stimuli depicted animated human walkers that varied in motion (gait patterns varying shoulder swagger and hip sway) and in morphology (waist-to-hip ratio). The potency of morphology in categorical sex judgments was confirmed. Visual scanning of the walkers was concentrated in the wa...

Respondents' Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI; S. L. Bem, 1974) classifications may differ considerably on the basis of the form and scoring method used. The BSRI was reexamined with respect to past and present relevance. Article: The 1970s heralded a new concept in masculinity and femininity research: the idea that healthy women and men could possess similar characteristics. Androgyny emerged as a...

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In order to cope with the demands of an aging society it is important to counteract the nursing shortage by recruiting female and male nurses (Hasselhorn, Müller, & Tackenberg, 2005; McLaughlin, Muldoon & Moutray, 2010). There are still plenty of stereotypes in society about typically male and typically female traits, behaviors and occupations (Arkkelin & O’Connor, 1992; Sieverding & Alfermann,...

Anarchy increased between 1976 and 19W---bu t so did ejhics and serendipity. Feminists ahnost doubled during the same period, and sexism declined dramatically. As beef dipped, breastfeeding and cannibalism increased. Both constipation and diarrhea increased, as did cancer and herpes. But anti-cancer increased tenfold, and tumors fell off. Promiscuity and erotica both increased, but lust faded a...

The purpose of this article was to examine the following three questions: Are women’s leadership styles truly different from men’s? Are these styles less likely to be effective? Is the determination of women’s effectiveness as a leaders fact-based or a perception that has become a reality? Conclusions revealed: Question one: Yes, women’s leadership style is, at this point, different from men’s ...

The present text is concerned with figures of unusual gender in two poetic texts by Georg Trakl, namely ‘Traum und Umnachtung’ and ‘Ruh Schweigen’, each which features the same violation German grammar at a crucial point. first starts ends scene boy recognising his sister's image mirror, will be read as specular identification that transgresses norms assignment. This transgression further illum...